Morgan Primus

[Manisphere]

I've waited until I could be utterly spoiler free to ask about this woman. The only NF I haven't read is No Limits so if my question is answered there, tell me but don't spoil me.

It seems to me that Morgan Primus was Pike's Number One, nurse Christine Chappel, and the computer voice from TNG on. In short, She's Majel Barret. Course she can't be Lwaxana Troy as Lwaxana is, well, physically older than Primus ever appeared to be. I also question how she could be related to Troy considering she has no family short or Robin Lefler.

Did Picard think she looked like L. Troy as he saw her brush by him in Double Helix. (Was it double Helix?) I would also think that if Spock ever saw her, the jig would be up. I mean he's Spock and she was in love with him.

Are we ever going to know Primus' connection to Starfleet? Or would you guys prefer she remain an enigmatic ongoing in-joke?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

She's the character that Majel Barrett would have played in New Frontier. Despite Where Sea Meets Sky, I don't think she's supposed to be Number One.

I think she's either Lilith, Adam's first wife, or Morgan Le Fey.

 

[Steve Roby]

It seems to me that Morgan Primus was Pike's Number One, nurse Christine Chappel, and the computer voice from TNG on. In short, She's Majel Barret. Course she can't be Roxanna Troy as Roxanna is, well, physically older than Primus ever appeared to be. I also question how she could be related to Troy considering she has no family short or Robin Lefler.

Lwaxana Troi.

Are we ever going to know Primus' connection to Starfleet? Or would you guys prefer she remain an enigmatic ongoing in-joke?

I prefer to ignore the whole business as much as possible. Number One, Morgan Primus, and Christine Chapel are different people who happen to sound like the computer voice. Yes, they're all played by Majel Barrett. That doesn't mean that Brunt, Weyoun, and Shran are all the same person just because they were played by the same actor, does it?

 

[David cgc]

Actually, didn't "Fearful Symmetry" had some bullshine about similar faces recurring across multiple species because of some crazy genetic technobabble?

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Actually, didn't "Fearful Symmetry" had some bullshine about similar faces recurring across multiple species because of some crazy genetic technobabble?

Well that isn't the same thing as "being the same person". And it wasn't "bullshine", it's canon- Kira Nerys and Iliana Ghemor do have the same face.

 

[David cgc]

It is still a fanwank to explain away multiple uses of the same actor, though.

 

[Lindley]

I thought of it more as a joke. Kind of like how the first chapter of The Never-Ending Sacrifice ends by saying that Rugal tried to read the Cardassian book of that name but never made it past the first chapter.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I also question how she could be related to Troy considering she has no family short or Robin Lefler.

There was a correspondance between Morgan and 'Xana (short for Lwaxana) in one of the books, which suggested a type of aunt/niece relationship between the two, and they both had still-unmarried daughters at the time. More like kindred spirits, not relatives.

 

[Cybersnark]

I'm fine with it; NF seems to make it a point to establish that the Trek universe is no less bizarre and seemingly impossible than our own. This is just one more bit of extreme weirdness.

Hell, it's really no different from Guinan having not aged since the 19th century. Perhaps Morgan could be a human/El-Aurian hybrid (since (A) she does age, slowly but noticeably, and (B) she claims to not know where her "immortality" comes from).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I like the idea that Primus was Number One, if only for the fact that we never learn Number One's actual name (the title being a standard way to refer to a ship's first officer), so why *not* have it be Primus?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Perhaps Morgan could be a human/El-Aurian hybrid (since (A) she does age, slowly but noticeably, and (B) she claims to not know where her "immortality" comes from).

Why does she have to be part El-Aurien? We have had immortal ST humans before. Flint, for one ("Requiem for Methuselah").

DC Fontana made her Number One an Ilyrian (the novel "Vulcan's Glory"). Presumably this is an old Earth colony. IIRC, Fontana consulted with Majel Barrett herself, who had her own theories on why Number One didn't use a regular name.

I think Peter David was planning to definitely reveal Morgan Primus as the former Number One at one point, but got pissed off when Jerry Oltien jumped the gun in "The Captain's Table". Oltien said in an interview that PAD had told him of the connection, but PAD denies it, so who knows. Then PAD seemed to enjoy hiding her face in WildStorm's "Double Time". The recent portrayal of Morgan in IDW's "Turnaround" miniseries showed her looking very much like Number One of "The Cage", even down to her collar style!

 

[JD]

Perhaps Morgan could be a human/El-Aurian hybrid (since (A) she does age, slowly but noticeably, and (B) she claims to not know where her "immortality" comes from).

Why does she have to be part El-Aurien? We have had immortal ST humans before. Flint, for one ("Requiem for Methuselah").

Ever since I first saw RfM, I've assumed that Morgan was somehow related to Flint. As for her being Number One, I really don't care either way, although I don't think she's realted to the other Majel Barrett Roddenberry characters.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Although there is a reason the computer has Majel's voice: It's actually Number One who programmed it that way.

 

[Fer]

^Per another Peter David book, iirc... "The Rift," wasn't it?